Repeatable Gospel Video

Grace

2 Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

     "Grace is the work of God on behalf of those who could never accomplish the task themselves. He did it and continues to do it for them. Grace is God's power to perform. Grace is the power of God given to men, enabling them to do things that otherwise would be impossible. It is God working in men to will and do His good pleasure. Grace is the life of God showcasing the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of God in and through the surrendered human life. It is God living in us and showing the world what He actually looks like."

     "So what does it mean to be "saved by grace"? It means that we are saved by the work, effort, and Spirit of God. He does the work on the cross that enables us to be inhabited by His presence, and then He continues to do the work in and through our lives, shaping us into a dynamic picture of His holiness. We are not just saved at the inception of our belief by grace. Rather, it is God's intent that we be "saved" by this grace every moment of every day of our lives moving forward. We need this grace not just for Heaven but for Earth. And not just for the beginning of the journey, but for the middle, and for the end, and for every occasion in between. Grace is the life of God imparted to us."

     "...God is in the business of building saints. He is the universe's foremost expert on overhauling the human existence and making it work the way it was originally intended to. And He does this overhaul with a tool known as grace. He saves us with it, He breaks us with it, He rebuilds us with it, and He fully equips us with it to turn this world upside down.

     "Grace is the life of Jesus imparted and living, moving, working, and thundering within our very bodies to accomplish the errands of God on planet Earth.

     "We are nothing without this grace. We can accomplish nothing without this grace. ..."

— Eric Ludy, The Bravehearted Gospel, page 234-235

Truth

Quotes from The Bravehearted Gospel Regarding Truth

"Truth does not stretch. It does not adapt. It does not placate. The Word of God is unchanging and does not shift in its meaning from generation to generation. Oh, we might want it to, but, like God, it is the same yesterday, today and forever." (page 118)

"The reluctance to acknowledge truth to be true or facts to be factual in no way alters the truth or the facts. But it does completely alter the way you interact with them, and therefore, the way you live your life." (page 123)

"But, according to the Bible, truth is neither a feeling nor some distant and detached idea; truth is a person - a person known as Jesus Christ, who wasn't distant but came and dwelt among us (John 14:6). He wasn't predictable, ... He wasn't heartless and uncaring, but in fact He gave up His life in order to bring us into an intimate acquaintance with Himself." (page 127)  

Dressing Up Jesus

     The "cool" mind, with its supersensitivity to public opinion polls and popularity ratings, has unwittingly begun to alter the historic moorings of Christian truth in an attempt to make the truth of Christ more palatable to our degenerate culture.

     For instance, the gospel has been reduced to a message merely about forgiveness while the idea of regeneration and transformation seems almost totally forgotten. Grace has become simply a gigantic hug from God and is no longer the muscle of God brought to earth to aid the weakness of men and to give them strength. Faith has morphed into this bizarre idea of "honest doubt" and has lost its essence of rock-solid unwavering confidence in the ability of God to perform that which He promises. Holiness has transformed into moralistic tyranny for the soul and something to be avoided at all costs. Righteousness has been redefined to mean an unreachable standard of perfection. Purity has become nothing more than a legalistic attempt to stay away from things and thoughts that God knows we won't be able to abstain from anyway. Love has become unconditional acceptance and tolerance of sin. The list goes on and on. In our desperate attempt at dressing up Jesus to make both us and Him more appealing to the cool crowd, the simple beauty of truth has somehow become lost under all the pretension and makeup.

     The integrity of everything Christ came to accomplish and provide for His bride is hanging woefully in the balance, and there is hardly even a whisper these days about the travesty. If there was ever a time for fixer men and women, warrior men and women, truth-protecting men and women to rise up and do something, it is now.

— Eric Ludy, The Bravehearted Gospel, page 99-100

Quote for the Day

     "A great deal can be learned about people by observing whom and what they imitate. The weak, for instance, imitate the strong; never the reverse. The poor imitate the rich. The self-assured are imitated by the timid and uncertain, the genuine is imitated by the counterfeit, and people all tend to imitate what they admire.

     "By this definition power today lies with the world, not with the church, for it is the world that initiates and the church that imitates what she has initiated. By this definition the church admires the world. The church is uncertain and looks to the world for assurance. A weak church is aping a strong world to the amusement of intelligent sinners and to her own everlasting shame."  ~ A. W. Tozer

As quoted in The Bravehearted Gospel, by Eric Ludy, page 97